What gives, is this more or less secure the X forwarding? Is there a better way?

Any info would be helpful
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So, your security people won't allow you to use X forwarding via SSH but you can use remote X directly across the network?

Wow.

That's like a babysitter putting a 3-year-old out in the middle of a superhighway - it's gob-smackingly incompetent.

Send this to your "security" people:

http://www.biac.duke.edu/library/documentation/xwin32/Security.html

All xauth does is set up a cookie that makes connecting to your X server somewhat harder. The data going across the network isn't encrypted, which means your keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen contents can be trivially intercepted. And if someone does crack your xauth cookie, they can pretty much set up a keylogger/screen dumper on you that you won't even know about.

And without xauth, anyone can pretty much log all your keystrokes and dump what's on your screen just by attaching an appropriate application to your X server.

It's amazing that your "security" people are members of the same species that put a man on the moon.

user5287726,
Thank you for replying to my question. I thought I saw stuff on the internet about remote display, being less secure. For me to get an exception for X forwarding I would need to justify it to the security person. Do you know of any cve or other such valuerbility listing that shows the DISPLAY security issue.